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When you mix in liquid/scalable page design with HTML, CSS styling tailored by platform, Video, Canvas, WebGL, SVG support, Javascript manipulation, and just overall integration, and the fact that it's all a royalty free open standard - Flash is teh FAIL.

Yeah, nowadays it seems that maximizing income by minimizing work force is about only "creative" plan CEOs are able to come up with. Then you end up with gigantic global company with single (?) developer in Unix/Linux-support department whining about sub-optimal video APIs. Adobe, with its Flash near-monopoly, is supposed to set standards for video playback on Linux.

Yeah, nowadays it seems that maximizing income by minimizing work force is about only "creative" plan CEOs are able to come up with. Then you end up with gigantic global company with single (?) developer in Unix/Linux-support department whining about sub-optimal video APIs. Adobe, with its Flash near-monopoly, is supposed to set standards for video playback on Linux.

Adobe is no longer the innovative company that once existed. The only bragging rights they have is Photoshop CS4.

The other claims are wrong too. All Linux drivers but IEGD offer a means to get decoded frames out of the GPU. VA-API and VDPAU are both suitable in a way to avoid this retrieval of decoded frames (VA subpictures / VDPAU layers). The concepts for that are rather simple, but the implementation is probably a little less trivial depending on the vector graphics rendering engine used.

Are you the guy working for splitted desktop systems that
s given us vaapi support for libavcodec and gnash and the vaapi wrappers for xvba and vdpau? If so thanks for your work.

Your comment (quoted below) with real measured numbers speaks a hell of a lot more than mike m.

"But minority browsers don't use as much CPU while playing HTML5 video tag data.

Are you sure about that?"

Safari 4.0.4 running in 32-bit mode under Mac OS X 10.6.2, on an iMac with a 2.16 Ghz Intel Core 2 Duo and 3GB of RAM.

Adobe can be doing much more -- without investing too much -- to improving their Flash Player support on Linux.

.. but it's far easier to post FUD about Linux inferiority in a blog and expect moneyed interests and your entrenched market position to justify doing the bare minimum to support your product on Linux. When "pesky facts" arise, be sure to paint your opponents as freetards or even better, hippies.